Background

Rhik Samadder was born on December 25, 1980, in the United Kingdom. His parents moved there in 1979.

Education

Career

Rhik Samadder writes features and interviews across The Guardian and The Observer, as well as other publications including Men's Health and Prospect. His previous interviewees include Macaulay Culkin, Simon Pegg, Ice Cube, Lenny Kravitz, and Noel Fielding.

As an actor, he has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC, HBO, and ITV among others. Rhik has appeared in Coronation Street in August 2014 as Dr. Roper when Tyrone Dobbs was hospitalized. He has also appeared in Strike Back, Doctors, Emmerdale, and the film Chemical Wedding. As a broadcaster, he has appeared as a guest on the Saturday Show (Channel 5), and on Radio 4's Today Programme. He recently presented How To Retire at 40 alongside Anna Richardson and Sophie Morgan for Channel 4.

Samadder's debut book, I Never Said I Loved You, was published in August 2019. It is a memoir, in which Rhik writes about his variously devastating experiences with lightness and warmly absurd humour.

Achievements

• Rhik Samadder is a prolific actor and journalist. He is known for his roles at Strike Back and Chemical Wedding.

Works

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• book

  • I Never Said I Loved You

    ("I'm in bed with my mother, in a Bangkok sex hotel. It is...)

    2019

• movie

  • Strike Back

    (As members of a top-secret anti-terrorist organization, B...)

    2010
  • Emmerdale

    (After debuting in 1972 (as "Emmerdale Farm"), the fiction...)

    2018
  • Chemical Wedding

    (A shy, stuttering professor brings Aleister Crowley back ...)

    2008
  • Coronation Street

    (This BAFTA-winning drama follows a tight-knit community.)

    2014

Personality

Samadder has recently revealed that he was a victim of sexual abuse at the age of six. In grown-up life, he has suffered from eating disorders and depression for a long time.